Periodic workspace save could not save safe table?

Question

I'm a newbie and I'm using the IBM RAD which is based on Eclipse. After install I deleted some files that seemed not needed in C:\workspace. Now I get this error: "Periodic workspace table can not be saved, file could not be found, could not save file table to C:\workspace.metadata..." Could you tell what I should do to resolve the error? Thanks

Answer 1

If you get this error in Linux environment, just update the ownership of the file below, and make the owner as same as the owner of the workspace folder:

<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable/org.eclipse.core.resources

This solution works for Eclipse version 4.3

Answer 2

Restore the files you deleted.

If you have no way to do that, create a new workspace (File > Switch Workspace > Other...) and then import your projects from the old one into the new one.